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Robert Hennessey is aMarketing Consultant, Inbound Marketing specialist, and B2B Sales Lead Generation Practitioner. His focus is helping small business and very small businesses generate business-to-business sales leads. Always pursuing new approaches to applying customer-centric marketing to effective online and offline sales lead prospecting.

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Many small businesses struggle with integrating public relations as a marketing tool for their marketing campaigns. Public r

elations services for small business are at best a monthly activity and usually less frequently than once a month. Many small business owners will say, “We don’t have enough content to conduct an ongoing PR campaign.” Others say, PR it just cost too much because of the way that PR services are sold.” Just about all say, how do I begin to evaluate my return-on-investment using public relations?”

It is a world of rapid-fire digital speed demons and if your company is not on target the alternative is a sure way to get lost in the dust. The old fashioned way of hunting for new business is no longer sufficient. You can only get so far relying on networking with here’s my business card and palm pressing. Utilizing social media options like Twitter to engage potential prospects first before the first handshake is the best way to beat the competition to the punch.

If you’re like me and know that the days of bombarding sales prospects with your latest sales pitch is over. Then you’ll want to learn more about how B2B sales prospects use the Web today and how we can serve the needs of these business professionals that creates a Win/Win for everybody.

What are your plans for generating sales leads in 2015? What lead generation tactics will be most important for your B2B small business? Do you have an understanding of works for your company to generate quality leads? These are just some questions B2B small businesses are asking themselves or should be heading into the New Year.

You may have heard that Press Releases are dead as an effective marketing tool to create traffic to your website. Moreover, you may also still be getting emails from on-line press release companies still touting the traffic building and SEO benefits of press releases. So who’s right? Neither.

One of the biggest problems small business B2B firms have when it comes to marketing their business is not identifying their target audience. But, how to create the marketing audience they need to reach. There has been a lot written about marketing personas, and these can be helpful, but most B2B companies know the make-up of their target market from a demographic and psychographic standpoint.

Are you contemplating hiring a B2B content marketing specialist anytime soon? A majority of companies say they are looking to expand their b2b content marketing activities; if this is something you will be doing then here are some helpful insights.